About the author

Sharing: A Practice for Family Connection

Patricia Wallum was born May 31, 1936 in Weehawken, New Jersey where she lived until 1958, when she married her attorney husband, Will Barber, and moved with him to Austin, Texas. She had earned a BA dual-degree in English and Education from the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, New Jersey in 1957 after which she taught elementary school for a brief period in New Jersey and in Texas. During the next ten years she became the mother of four children, and she now includes in her family four in-law children and seven living grandchildren.

Pat describes herself as questionably sane, semi-sensible survivor of a full family life. Others describe her as someone whose life’s work is family, and Family Sharing is the heart and soul of her work; someone who walks the walk, inspiring others to deepen their family connections by candidly sharing her own and those of her family. She’s a skilled writer, brilliantly able to share with others the immense value of Family Sharing. She has built a reliable framework for spanning inevitable relational gaps that exist in families, even those that are relatively functional, offering with subtle wit and straightforward candor, simple recommendations for taking one’s family to deeper levels of intimate connection, through an easily accessible, unique, and specific practice which she calls Family Sharing.